The same day President Biden defended his anti-fossil fuel program and spoke of good-paying renewable energy jobs, ill winds blew at wind-turbine manufacturer Vestas as the company laid off 450 workers at its Colorado manufacturing plants. As reported by the Pueblo Chieftain, the Danish company laid off 120 workers at its tower-manufacturing plant in …
** Saudi Arabia intends to raise its oil output in April after committing to unilaterally cut 1 million barrels per day of crude production in February and March in an effort to boost global prices, according to advisers to the kingdom, though they said the plans could be reversed if circumstances change reported Morning Consult. …
Just as coal-fired power plants provided a bulk of the electricity during the historic frigid weather and rolling blackouts that hit Oklahoma, Kansas based company Evergy has changed course about how to abandon those coal plants. As E&E News reported, the Kansas City utility has come out in support of proposals in Kansas and …
In Missouri, the legislature is considering a bill to allow utility companies to charge more to buy back excess electrical power from solar panel users. A House Utilities Committee held a hearing this week on legislation that would allow utilities and electricity providers to raise costs for customers who use solar panels. It would …
The Iowa legislature has started working on bills to create an ethanol mandate at the gas pumps across the state, one promoted by Gov. Kim Reynolds. She contends it will help an industry that’s been battered by the EPA and its resistance for a federal mandate. As Radio Iowa reported this week, bills calling …
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts wasn’t happy this week even after his state avoided another round of rolling blackouts and was critical of the need for them in the first place. “These rolling blackouts are completely unacceptable,” Ricketts said. “This is the United States of America. We are not some developing nation who has …
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt reached out to the federal government and asked for a national declaration over the historic winter storm that kept the state in a literal deep freeze for nearly two weeks. And it didn’t take long for President Biden to act and give the assistance. The President quickly declared that an …
While millions of Texas residents suffered power outages for the past several days in the historic winter storm, those who live in El Paso escaped such losses of power. Why? Because El Paso is not part of the Texas power grid. Instead, it belongs to the Western power grid which covers 14 Western states, …
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott moved this week to stop the out-of-state sales of any natural gas produced in Texas as millions of residents deal with rolling blackouts and frigid winter weather. He issued the order and noted that some producers had been exporting their natural gas to areas outside the state. “I have issued …
Force Majeure just reared its ugly head in oil production across the Permian Basin, an oil-rich region where production was already down more than 1 million barrels of oil a day. It’s the term thrown out Oklahoma Corporation Commission meeting this week as regulators debated how to order utilities to focus on customers as …
